If you’ve ever tried to plan a t-shirt quilt, you know the drill.
You lay everything out on the floor. You move things around. You crawl from one end to the other trying to see it as a whole. You try a crayon, a sticky note, graph paper, your phone camera — anything to capture the arrangement before someone walks through and kicks a shirt. Or you settle for a design you don’t love, because you are done crawling around on the floor.
You have a design wall, but the shirts don’t stick well — and with a puzzle-style layout, a design wall isn’t really effective anyway. You do math on a napkin. You second-guess the math. You do it again.
I’ve been making t-shirt quilts for clients for years, and the planning stage is where most people get stuck — or give up. Not because they can’t sew it. Because they can’t see it before they commit to it.
Get instant access to the T-Shirt Quilt Blueprint and start planning your next quilt with confidence — no more floor guesswork, just a clear process from start to finish.
The T-Shirt Quilt Blueprint: Puzzle Edition
The T-Shirt Quilt Blueprint is a complete planning system designed specifically for puzzle-style t-shirt quilts — the kind where blocks aren’t all the same size, but cut to the dimensions that best suit each logo. Where the layout has movement and intention. Where the finished quilt looks like it was designed, not just assembled.
No math on your end. No floor. No crayons.
A clear plan before a single stitch.
The right-size quilt for your specific number and size of shirts — digitally designed so the “before” looks remarkably like the “after.” The layout is settled before construction begins. No surprise, filler pieces. No blocks turned sideways to make them work. Just a plan, an execution, and a finished quilt you’ll be proud of.
This is for anyone who already makes t-shirt quilts professionally — if you’ve avoided puzzle quilts because they seemed too complicated or you didn’t love the process, you’re in for a surprise.
And if you’ve never made a t-shirt quilt before? This is for you too. Who knows — you might just find yourself with a side hustle.
Get instant access to the T-Shirt Quilt Blueprint and start planning your next quilt with confidence — no more floor guesswork, just a clear process from start to finish.
The digital mockup on the left — the same layout with a border color audition in the middle — and the finished quilt on the right.
Every block sized, every shirt placed, border colors chosen and client-approved before a single seam is sewn. What you see in the plan is what you get in the quilt.
I’m launching something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: a full video series on making a puzzle-style t-shirt quilt, start to finish.
I’ll walk you through the entire process — how I think about the layout, how I work with different block sizes, the construction method, the partial seams, all of it. Whether or not you use interfacing is your call, and I’ll cover both. Real quilts, real decisions, no fluff.
The videos will cover the making. The Blueprint will cover the planning. Together they give you everything you need to take a box of shirts and turn it into something you’ll actually love.
Those shirts aren’t just fabric — they’re a timeline. Every logo, every season, every memory of the person who wore them. Pull them out of that bin and let’s give each one exactly the place it deserves.
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The unfinished t-shirt quilt sitting in that bin deserves better than a napkin sketch and crossed fingers.
Let’s plan it intentionally — and confidently.
Get instant access to the T-Shirt Quilt Blueprint and start planning your next quilt with confidence — no more floor guesswork, just a clear process from start to finish.
— Susan